Trip Hawkins quotes

Trip Hawkins is an American businessman best known as the founder of Electronic Arts (EA), a leading video game company. His work significantly influenced the growth and mainstream popularity of the gaming industry. He continues to be recognized for his innovative contributions to interactive entertainment and technology. Here are 25 of his quotes:

Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

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But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

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There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

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[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

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[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

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But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

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Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

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We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

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From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

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None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

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I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

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The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

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And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

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What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

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We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

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If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

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If you look at any institution in history – look at the Roman Empire – anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to – everything does.

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We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

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The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

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You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

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